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From: MARTIN J. KNIEP <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 10:49 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Monkey Virus on 386

>primarily for e-mail.  I have run McAfee Viruscan on the system and it
>tells me I have traces of MONKEY_B Virus in memory.  It instructs to turn
>off and start with a system-bootable disk.  No problem, I insert a system
>disk (containing IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and COMMAND.COM) which I have
determined
>to be virus free on another machine.  The system will boot to an "a:>"
>prompt but when I either try to switch to "C:" as the active drive or run
>"dir c:", I get an "invalid drive" message.
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Do you have Ontrack Disk Manager or some other large disk handler on this
system? If so, you may need to create a boot disk from its utilities
(preferably from another PC, so you don't infect your boot disk).

HTH.

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Dan Chapman
Network Analyst
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
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